Enclosure No. 2 to Despatch No. 91 of the 19th March, 1902.)
General Post Office, Hongkong, 7th March, 1902.
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To
The Acting Postmaster-General.
Sir,
15006 Peck REG 23 APR 12
I beg respectfully to submit the following points for your consideration.
(1). Before accepting the appointment of an Examining Supervisor in the Hongkong Post Office, I enquired at the Colonial Office in London, the amount of House Allowance I should receive in this Colony, but was informed the matter could be better dealt with in Hongkong. The cheapest house I have been able to find will cost me 45 dollars per month; therefore, I am reluctantly compelled to make this appeal to you with a view to ascertaining whether any House allowance might be made to me.
(2). I must also ask that some remuneration may be allowed me by the Government towards the heavy expenses incurred by me in conveying my wife and family from London to Hongkong. I give below a detailed list of my expenses, towards which the sum of 15/- was allowed me by the Agent General for the Colonies.
Hotel Expenses night prior to departure from London.£0.3.0 Cab Fare to Liverpool Street0.10.10 Railway Fares to Tilbury Docks0.5.10 Stewards Fees on S.S. "Oceana"3.10.0 Cost of conveying baggage to Docks0.18.0 Stewards Fees on S.S. "Oriental"1.10.0 Boarding House expenses on arrival in Hongkong1.10.0 Cost of Coolie hire from Docks to Hotel and from thence to present house.2.13.0 £7.19.13(sd.) T. S. Martin,
Supervisor of Mails,
Hongkong Post Office.
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